CANADA TRADE MINISTER ATTACKS TRUMP DUTIES – SAYS OTTAWA WILL RESIST TARIFFS
June 1st, 2018
CANADA’S minister of international trade today told world aluminium sector leaders how the deplored the imposition of duties by the USA of Canadian exports of the metal, branding it “deeply troubling and unacceptable.” Arguing that the action would “do nothing to address the problem of global over-capacity”, François-Philippe Champagne said the tariffs would harm American and Canadian producers whose integrated aluminium industries “don’t sell to each other, they make things together.”
Speaking at a Montreal Aluminium Summit today (June 4), ...
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